With two books we love coming out on the same day, we debated what to do. Give one book the spotlight today and feature the other another day? Arm wrestle for the blog spot? (That would be a pathetic sight!) But our own birthdays are only a week apart and we celebrated them together with a glass of bubbly—after a morning of talking through fixes for problems in our manuscripts. So it felt right to celebrate the birthdays of these two awesome books together.
We’re wishing happy book birthdays to both The Edge of Everything and to Caraval. And sending congratulations to both Jeff Giles and Stephanie Garber!
Stephanie Garber’s Caraval pulls the reader into a world of magic. Scarlett desperately wants to escape her violent and controlling father and to take her younger sister, Donatella, with her. Scarlet hopes marriage to a man she’s never met, a marriage arranged by her father, will save them. Donatella doesn’t believe it will, so she persuades a handsome sailor to transport them off their island home and to Caraval, a legendary once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show. This year’s audience will compete to solve a puzzle and the winner will be granted a magical wish — exactly what Scarlett and Donatella need.
Find Rebecca’s review of Caraval, originally published January 13th, here.
The Edge of Everything: When 17-year-old Zoe plunges into a snowstorm to find her brother, she’s set upon by a crazed murderer, only to be saved by the mysterious X, a handsome bounty hunter from the hell-like Lowlands who must take the killer’s soul back with him. But when Zoe asks for mercy for the killer, she unknowingly sets in motion a series of events that will have her questioning the circumstances of her father’s death, who she is, and what it means to fall for a boy from Hell.
Read an interview in which Jeff describes his inspiration for the story here.
GITA TRELEASE writes YA historical fantasy. Her current project takes place during the French Revolution—gambling and desperate games, decadence and dark magic. Connect with her on Twitter and Instagram.
